After dropping The Armory Show and then being demoted at Frieze London – Gagosian goes large on Paris – with a great lineup of exhibitions.
Here are the artists and the places in the headlines this weekend: October 12-14.
Frank Auerbach: Portraits of London – Offer Waterman and Francis Outred (Top Photo)
For the organizers of a showcase of New Spanish painting and sculpture at the New Mexico Museum of Art (NMMA), exhibition planning began with a problem: “We wanted to be able to include Mexican high baroque as well as santero culture in New Mexico,” says Mark White, the museum’s executive director.
The Serpentine, a contemporary art space usually found in the grand Kensington Gardens, an eyeshot away from the royal palace, has shuffled up the road to the Ciné Lumière to mount the first expansive UK survey of work made by the American artist-filmmaker Ja’Tovia Gary.
As a new exhibition dedicated to Cindy Sherman’s fashion imagery opens at FOMU in Antwerp, curator Rein Deslé reveals the stories behind five of her key works
Art Basel Paris has a new name and a new venue as the fair opens its third edition at the newly renovated Grand Palais, showcasing 195 galleries from 42 countries and 53 new exhibitors.